MEXICO CITY Jarrad Davis Jersey , Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- The recent pressure on the value of the Mexican peso is, at least in part, due to the uncertainty surrounding the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiations, said Finance Minister Jose Antonio Meade on Monday.

"The markets consider that, in the absence of a treaty, there has be a real adjustment in the exchange rate Graham Glasgow Lions Jersey , which pressures us in consequence," Meade told a business forum.

The Mexican peso opened on Monday at a high of 19.09 pesos to the U.S. dollar, its highest rate in five months.

Another factor making investors nervous in Mexico is the expectation of a normalization of U.S. monetary policy.

"Faced with these two elements that come from outside, what we can do is trying to exercise internal control. What we have...is the ability to steady our fiscal policy," he added.

Concerning NAFTA, Meade said that the central objective of the Mexican government is to secure a good renegotiation A'Shawn Robinson Lions Jersey , calling the differences between the U.S., Canada and Mexico as part of a "normal process."

The fourth round of NAFTA talks is currently being held in the U.S., with differences beginning to become more pronounced. Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo admitted on Friday that conversations were going through a difficult time.

The U.S. government is seeking to update NAFTA, in force since 1994, with a number of demands, including a five-year expiration clause T.J. Jones Lions Jersey , the scrapping of a chapter on dispute resolution, and an increasing in rules of origin for the automotive and textile industries, which Mexico and Canada oppose.

Fresh air is becoming a luxury for many Chinese. Especially in northern China where many areas been wrapped in heavy smog since last weekend prompting 23 cities to activate red alerts, the highest in a four-tier warning system for severe weather.

Beijing’s environmental monitoring center warned of worse to come today though the smog should disperse overnight due to a north wind.

At least nine of the city’s expressways were closed yesterday morning and, by 2pm, 273 flights had been canceled at Beijing Capital International Airport.

Lessons at kindergartens and primary schools in Beijing Marvin Jones Jr Lions Jersey , Tianjin, Xi’an and Zhengzhou were suspended, with some high schools also affected.

Beijing-based magazine DUKU sent an apology letter to subscribers, saying its last edition of 2016 would not reach readers until after the New Year due to the temporary closure of a printing plant under the red alert.

Many ready-to-eat products are absent from shelves because of a ban on delivery trucks.

According to a circular released by the neighboring city of Langfang, all restaurants and breakfast stalls in county seats without equipment to deal with fumes have been ordered to halt operations until December 31. Also suspended, until mid-March Golden Tate III Lions Jersey , are all construction projects in the city.

Escape to Hainan

A resident of Lanzhou, capital of northwest China’s Gansu Province, told reporters in southern China’s Hainan Province that she had flown there with her 2-year-old granddaughter to escape the smog.

“We feel much better here than in Lanzhou,” she said.

Li and her friends are planning to buy houses in Hainan where they can escape during smoggy winters.

On Sunday, two days after Beijing’s red alert, the airport in Haikou Barry Sanders Lions Jersey , Hainan’s capital, welcomed 32,155 inbound passengers, the highest since October’s National Day holiday.

Liu Lijuan, a fruit and vegetable seller in Hebei Province, says her customers Graham Glasgow Youth Jersey , most of them migrant workers, have little to spend because of work shutdowns due to the smog.

Hebei, one of China’s major steel and coal mining provinces, has shut thousands of factories, construction sites, and even fried-food stalls under red alerts.

“Our company was ordered to halt production on November 20 A'Shawn Robinson Youth Jersey , and 160 of our workers have been temporarily laid off,” said Tian Pengjie at a gypsum factory in the province.

Even under the red alerts, some companies have carried on polluting the air. Xu Ganlu, deputy governor of Henan Province, said the power consumption of the nearly 3,000 companies ordered to halt production had not reduced T.J. Jones Youth Jersey , indicating they did not halt production. Another 900 companies ordered to limit production did not make any reductions.

PHNOM PENH， Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Ministry of Environment on Tuesday partnered with conservationist group Wildlife Alliance to prepare the kingdom's largest REDD+ project in Southern Cardamom Mountain National Park and Tatai Wildlife Sanctuary， according to a joint statement.

REDD+ ((Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is a U.N.-initiated program designed to mitigate climate change through reducing net emissions of greenhouse gases through enhanced forest management in developing countries.

The Southern Cardamon Mountain REDD+ project will generate sustainable financial support to protect Cambodia's forests -- 500，000 hectares of the Cardamom Mountain Rainforest Landscape， which is one of the largest and most biodiverse rainforests still standing in Southeast Asia， the statement said.

"This demonstrates the Royal Government of Cambodia's commitment to the protection and conservation of natural resources in conjunction with livelihood improvement，" it said.

Under the partnership， Cambodia will be able to sell carbon credits originating from the Southern Cardamoms landscape， the statement said， adding that the revenue will finance the long-term protection of the landscape and support sustainable local livelihoods and rural communities.

"REDD+ in Cardamoms landscape will be the third effort in establishing sustainable financing support for the protection and conservation of forests in Cambodia，" Environment Minister Say Samal said.